The Martian north pole is honeycombed with frozen water, exceeding the ice deposits detected on Mars southern end and raising hopes of finding traces of past microscopic life, astronomers reported on Thursday. The northern ice lies just below the Red Planets surface, according to Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, part of a team of U.S. and Russian scientists who made the discovery.
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